Still dropping after a while.

webranger · Post by **webranger** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:35 pm

Well, steamcast still seems to drop after while. It looks like about 36 hours at a whack.

Is there anything I can do to find out why?. Perhaps a way to turn debug logging on or something?.

Post by **Jay** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:36 pm

can you be more specific when you say drop?

Lane · Post by **Lane** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:08 pm

I've had the latest beta running for a few days. I don't think I've had a steady source on it for 36 hours though. I'm currently at 14 hours with my latest source. If I get it past 36 hours, I'll let you know. (I've disconnected to reconfigure things usually once a day. I'll resist that this time).

webranger · Post by **webranger** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:07 am

It runs along fine, and then for no apparent reason and no error message, it just quits to the command line.

It happened a lot faster today. I only got a few hours, usually it stays up longer. I was thinking about hooking a streamripper to it to see if it's some program that makes it die.

I doubt it though because the failure seems to be at random times. My playlists are not random, so I don't think it's the source files.

Gut reaction..... I still think it has something to do with the source logins.

Lane · Post by **Lane** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:21 pm

Are you using YP? Do you get a seg fault error? What does your log file show?

webranger · Post by **webranger** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:13 pm

I am getting an error message from the YP handshaking. It just says unknown error in the log. That happens all of the time though and is not the reason for the crash (I think).

When it dies there is no error message..... It just goes south.

EDIT: It's a clean exit, no error message, almost like it was "asked" to quit... gentle .... no big fanfare or segfaults.

djclae · Post by **djclae** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:35 am

Lane wrote:I've had the latest beta running for a few days. I don't think I've had a steady source on it for 36 hours though. I'm currently at 14 hours with my latest source. If I get it past 36 hours, I'll let you know. (I've disconnected to reconfigure things usually once a day. I'll resist that this time).

I don't expect the source to go more steady than that. The Steamcast server never seems to go down though, if I leave it alone.

Lane · Post by **Lane** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:42 pm

Just checking in here. I have let it run quite a long time. It's been very stable for me. I haven't been running YP though.

Post by **Jay** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:20 pm

I believe there is a bug in the online time display. This shouldn't cause a crash but it does cause the number to be accurate. I'll keep a close eye on it when I get back into town. Am at SASS this weekend.

webranger · Post by **webranger** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:37 am

I'm firing this up as a relay this time, so it shouldn't interfere to much with my normal web operations.

It looks to me like some very minor bug. Maybe we can figure out how to squish it.

Is there debug logging that I could turn on?.

Post by **Jay** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:53 am

no, a very simple debug log is already enabled as part of the beta.

I'll setup a win2k3 server when I get back from SASS and heavily test it.

allclone · Post by **allclone** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:45 pm

I think I might be having the same trouble no error message or anything in the log just closes, I have not had mine up for a total of 30+ hrs yet but it quits at radome times, usaly right when I start adding sources.

Example: Clean log and crash/drop right after all sources connect it just stops.

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[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Configuration loaded from steamcast.conf
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Vip file loaded
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Ban file loaded
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Listening to ANY:8002 for incoming client connections...
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Listening to ANY:8003 for incoming source connections...
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Listening to 8002 for incoming stat connections...
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] PID: 3320
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Name Lookup Thread Started
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Starting Thread pool of 6 threads...
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Source attempting connection from 10.12.1.2.
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Source 4 Logged in
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Name:LoFiRadio; Genre:Music
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Public:0; Bitrate:24; URL:http://clx.serveftp.com:8002/
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Content-Type: audio/mpeg
[07/17/2005@16:52:52] Source Connection Complete
[07/17/2005@16:52:53] <10.12.1.2> Request: /admin.cgi {UA: ShoutcastDSP (Mozilla Compatible)}
[07/17/2005@16:53:00] Source attempting connection from 127.0.0.1.
[07/17/2005@16:53:00] Source 3 Logged in
[07/17/2005@16:53:00] Name::| WKCLX |:; Genre:Music
[07/17/2005@16:53:00] Public:0; Bitrate:24; URL:http://clx.serveftp.com:8002/
[07/17/2005@16:53:00] Content-Type: audio/aac
[07/17/2005@16:53:00] Source Connection Complete
[07/17/2005@16:53:00] <127.0.0.1> Request: /admin.cgi {UA: (Mozilla Compatible)}
[07/17/2005@16:53:03] Source attempting connection from 127.0.0.1.
[07/17/2005@16:53:03] Source 2 Logged in
[07/17/2005@16:53:03] Name::|WKCLX|:; Genre:Music
[07/17/2005@16:53:03] Public:0; Bitrate:32; URL:http://clx.serveftp.com:8002/
[07/17/2005@16:53:03] Content-Type: audio/aac
[07/17/2005@16:53:03] Source Connection Complete
[07/17/2005@16:53:03] <127.0.0.1> Request: /admin.cgi {UA: (Mozilla Compatible)}

I however found this in windows Application Event Viewer just after Steamcast closed

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Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Application Error
Event Category:	(100)
Event ID:	1000
Date:		7/17/2005
Time:		4:53:05 PM
User:		N/A
Computer:	G133
Description:
Faulting application steamcast.exe, version 1.0.0.1, faulting module steamcast.exe, version 1.0.0.1, fault address 0x00007c39.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 73 74 65   ure  ste
0018: 61 6d 63 61 73 74 2e 65   amcast.e
0020: 78 65 20 31 2e 30 2e 30   xe 1.0.0
0028: 2e 31 20 69 6e 20 73 74   .1 in st
0030: 65 61 6d 63 61 73 74 2e   eamcast.
0038: 65 78 65 20 31 2e 30 2e   exe 1.0.
0040: 30 2e 31 20 61 74 20 6f   0.1 at o
0048: 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 30   ffset 00
0050: 30 30 37 63 33 39         007c39

I donâ€™t know if the windows info will help but its the only thing that appears after Steamcast closes

I'm now running server 2003, and all YP touches are disabled.

webranger · Post by **webranger** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:16 am

If it helps, steamcast seems to be 100% stable when used as a relay server driven by shoutcast.

Ran for days.

Post by **Jay** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:01 pm

interesting, I think I found the problem. It appears that it has something to do with steamcast's meta handling.

Can someone try disabling meta updates via their encoder and varify?

allclone · Post by **allclone** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 1:58 am

Glad to hear, trying my setup without sending meta data to steamcast I will let you know when I wake up in the morning if I get any more msg errors in windows log or if it keeps on running.

Edit: Update
Last nights with no meta data setup seamed to work steamcast ran all night without closing but as soon as I turned on meta data for shoutcast dsp winamp plug-in and flipped threw a couple of songs it crashed/closed after the Request: /admin.cgi.